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Jul 3, 2017
07/17
Jul 3, 2017
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This is the full 7-2-2017 episode of the Labor Express Radio program. On tonight’s episode of Labor Express Radio we will hear about a preliminary strike vote held by Amalgamated Transit Union (ATU) Local 308 which represents workers on Chicago’s El Trains. We have been talking about the increasing militancy demonstrated by the ATU locals as they continue to work without a contract since 2015. This move is the latest and perhaps most significant development in that struggle. If a...
Topics: labor, chicago, union, justice, workers, teachers, CTA, transit, Oak Park, Minimum Wage, Cook County
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May 18, 2017
05/17
May 18, 2017
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Jerry Mead-Lucero
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This is the full 5-21-2017 episode of the Labor Express Radio program. We have spent a lot of time in the past year or more focused on the struggles of teachers here on Labor Express. So much so, that I can imagine some listeners might feel it has been overkill. But the truth is that teachers and their unions have been at the lead of so many of the major labor battles in our city in recent years. And this past month has been no exception. So once again, we will hear from teachers...
Topics: labor, chicago, union, justice, workers, teachers, CTU, special education, Sarah Chambers, CTA,...
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May 7, 2017
05/17
May 7, 2017
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Jerry Mead-Lucero
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This is the full 5-7-2017 episode of the Labor Express Radio program. I hope everyone enjoyed their May Day this year. Given President Trump’s attacks on both immigrants and workers, the worst we have seen in decades, many, including myself, had high hopes that May Day 2017 would be historic in terms of turnout. A couple months back I thought perhaps we would see the return of the size of marches we saw back in 2006. That did not come to pass. But May Day 2017 may still turn out to be...
Topics: labor, chicago, union, justice, workers, immigrants, Los Angeles, May Day, UFCW, UNITE-HERE,...
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Apr 17, 2017
04/17
Apr 17, 2017
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Jerry Mead-Lucero
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Alianza Americas Executive Director Oscar Chacon discusses the contributions immigrants make to the economy through their tax contributions.
Topics: immigrants, Latinos, migrants, taxes
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Apr 17, 2017
04/17
Apr 17, 2017
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Jerry Mead-Lucero
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This is the full 4-16-2017 episode of the Labor Express Radio program. Did you file your taxes? Yesterday, April 15th was of course tax day, the day by which all residents working in the U.S. are legally obligated to submit their annual tax returns. Though the IRS is giving people until Tuesday the 18th to file this year as the 15th was a Saturday and Monday is Emancipation Day, a legal holiday in D.C. A holiday commemorating Lincoln’s 1862 emancipation of slaves in the capital prior to...
Topics: labor, chicago, union, justice, workers, immigrants, migrants, taxes
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64
Mar 27, 2017
03/17
Mar 27, 2017
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Jerry Mead-Lucero
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This is the full 3-26-2017 episode of the Labor Express Radio program. On tonight’s episode of Labor Express yet another charter school network is being organized by ChiActs, the union representing teachers at Chicago’s charter schools. We have reported in our last few programs on the contract victories at the ASPIRA and UCSN networks. Now teachers at the Noble network, one of the largest networks of charter schools in the city, have gone public with their effort to organize at Noble....
Topics: labor, chicago, union, justice, workers, Noble, charter schools
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7.0
Mar 26, 2017
03/17
Mar 26, 2017
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Jerry Mead-Lucero
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This is the full 3-12-2017 episode of the Labor Express Radio program. On the week's episode of Labor Express Radio we a variety of topics to address. First, we will hear about how working women celebrated International Women’s Day, March 8th, here in Chicago and around the nation. Later in the program, the teachers at the ASPIRA Charter School network on Chicago’s northside may have finally won a new contract. The union had set a strike date for Friday March 17th if management continued...
Topics: labor, chicago, union, justice, workers, women, ATU, transit workers, ASPIRA, charter schools,...
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Feb 28, 2017
02/17
Feb 28, 2017
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Jerry Mead-Lucero
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This is the full 2-26-2017 episode of the Labor Express Radio program. On this week's episode of Labor Express Radio we take a look a two potentially exciting developments on the local labor scene here in Chicago. First, the teachers at the ASPIRA Charter School network on Chicago’s northside have voted overwhelming to strike. Of course strikes are always tough on workers and in the case of schools difficult for the students and families affected as well. But the overwhelming support for...
Topics: labor, chicago, union, justice, workers
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16
Feb 28, 2017
02/17
Feb 28, 2017
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Jerry Mead-Lucero
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This is the full 2-12-2017 episode of the Labor Express Radio program. On this episode of Labor Express Radio, we remember the life and work of a local labor movement legend. Frank Rosen, was President of District 11 of the UE, headquartered here in Chicago, from 1976 until his retirement in 1990. Frank continued to be a leader in local social movements well after his retirement. Frank’s approach to social unionism which combined militant, progressive organizing with community...
Topics: labor, chicago, union, justice, workers
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Jan 30, 2017
01/17
Jan 30, 2017
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Jerry Mead-Lucero
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This is the full 1-29-2017 episode of the Labor Express Radio program. On this episode of Labor Express Radio, we will hear about one of Chicago’s unionized charter school’s, Instituto Justice Leadership Academy, where teachers and students are engaged in a struggle to prevent layoffs and preserve the school’s mission as a student centered, social justice orientated school. We will also hear about the struggle of transit workers in Chicago to win a fair contract, whose fight seems to be...
Topics: labor, chicago, union, justice, workers
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13
Jan 30, 2017
01/17
Jan 30, 2017
by
Jerry Mead-Lucero
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This is the full 1-8-2017 episode of the Labor Express Radio program. Happy New Year to all of our listeners. This is the first new episode of Labor Express for 2017. As the majority of working people in this country are trying to come to grips with the potentially dark future of a new year in which the incoming Trump administration is in power. Some are organizing to fight back. The end of 2016 saw a host of actions by unions and other working class organizations to challenge the...
Topics: labor, chicago, union, justice, workers
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8.0
Jan 30, 2017
01/17
Jan 30, 2017
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Jerry Mead-Lucero
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This is the full 12-11-2016 episode of the Labor Express Radio program. On our last episode of Labor Express Radio, we took a look at the 2016 Presidential election and what the result means for the U.S. working class. But we have been following two elections over the last few months. The other is the 2016 Teamsters Union national leadership elections and on tonight’s program we have author, journalist and labor activist Joe Allen back to discuss the outcome of that election. The ballot...
Topics: labor, chicago, union, justice, workers, Teamsters
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58
Nov 21, 2016
11/16
Nov 21, 2016
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Jerry Mead-Lucero
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This is the full 11-20-2016 episode of the Labor Express Radio program. On tonight’s episode of Labor Express we take a look at the presidential election and ask what happened, why and what can we expect in regards to the impact on working people in the next 4 years. While much of the mainstream press is rightly lamenting the level of racism, sexism and xenophobia in this country that was revealed by Trump’s victory, few media outlets have focused on a class perspective and analysis of...
Topics: labor, chicago, union, justice, workers, Donald Trump, election, Hillary Clinton, Jack Rasmus
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Oct 30, 2016
10/16
Oct 30, 2016
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Jerry Mead-Lucero
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This is the full 10-30-2016 episode of the Labor Express Radio program. Since our last program aired two weeks ago, two strikes have been averted, and another launched. On our last program we discussed that the Chicago Teachers Union (CTU) was reviewing the final contract offer made by the Chicago Board of Education in precisely the 11th hour, the night before a strike was set to start. The Union’s House of Delegates, which includes hundreds of representatives from the over 600 schools in...
Topics: labor, chicago, union, justice, workers, Chicago Teachers Union, CTU, strike, public education,...
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Oct 16, 2016
10/16
Oct 16, 2016
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Jerry Mead-Lucero
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This is the full 10-16-2016 episode of the Labor Express Radio program. Teachers with the UNO Charter School Network, also known as UCSN, a network of 15 elementary and high schools in Chicago, with a combined student body of 8,000, could go on strike as early as next Wednesday, if a breakthrough in negotiations can’t be achieved. The teachers at UNO are represented by ACTS Chicago, the union for charter school teachers in Chicago, which has made great strides organizing charter schools...
Topics: labor, chicago, union, justice, workers, Chicago Teachers Union, CTU, strike, public education,...
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140
Oct 11, 2016
10/16
Oct 11, 2016
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Jerry Mead-Lucero
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Interview with labor activist, writer and former Teamster Joe Allen, author of The Package King: A Rank and File History of United Parcel Service , about the current elections for national leadership of the Teamsters union. The 2016 Teamster elections could significantly impact not only the direction of the Teamsters themselves, but the entire U.S. labor movement. As Joe explains at a time in which the organization of labor in the logistics sector is vital to advances for the U.S. working...
Topics: Teamsters, union, elections, labor
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142
Sep 18, 2016
09/16
Sep 18, 2016
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Jerry Mead-Lucero
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This is the full 9-18-2016 episode of the Labor Express Radio program. On tonight’s episode of Labor Express Radio, two major events are fast approaching. This first is the likelihood of a Chicago Teachers Strike sometime in the next couple months. We will hear from CTU organizing director Norine Gutekanst about why a strike might be necessary and how the Chicago Teachers Union (CTU) is preparing its members for a strike, including participating in a national day of action in defense of...
Topics: labor, chicago, union, justice, workers, Chicago Teachers Union, CTU, strike, public education,...
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36
Aug 28, 2016
08/16
Aug 28, 2016
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Jerry Mead-Lucero
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This is the full 8-28-2016 episode of the Labor Express Radio program. On tonight’s episode of Labor Express Radio, as the Summer comes to an end and thousands of students and teachers ready themselves for a return to the classroom in the coming weeks, the likelihood of a teachers strike seems increasingly likely. The Chicago teachers union or CTU house of delegates is set to meet on September 7th to discuss this possibility. A day after students return to school. But a strike will not...
Topics: labor, chicago, union, justice, workers, Chicago Teachers Union, CTU, Mexico
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Aug 12, 2016
08/16
Aug 12, 2016
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Jerry Mead-Lucero
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This is the full 8-14-2016 episode of the Labor Express Radio program. On tonight’s episode of Labor Express Radio, as the world turns it attention to the 2016 Summer Olympic Games in Rio de Janiero Brazil, we take a look at recent political developments in that nation and the working class efforts to fight back against a right turn in Brazil and across the continent. When the Workers Party or PT won the parliamentary elections in Brazil in 2002, Brazil was at the lead of what would become a...
Topics: labor, chicago, union, justice, workers, Brazil, Worker's Party, PT, impeachment, Luiz Inácio Lula...
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Jul 1, 2016
07/16
Jul 1, 2016
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Jerry Mead-Lucero
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This is the full 7-3-2016 episode of the Labor Express Radio program. Tonight’s episode of Labor Express Radio will be devoted to an interview by phone with economist, Dr. Jack Rasmus, a professor of economics and politics at St. Mary’s College in California, and author of numerous books, the latest of which is entitled, Systemic Fragility' in the Global Economy , he is also a regular contributor to several magazines, journals and online news sources. One of his most recent articles for...
Topics: labor, chicago, union, justice, workers, Brexit, Jack Rasmus, economics, neoliberalism, elections,...
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Jun 23, 2016
06/16
Jun 23, 2016
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Jerry Mead-Lucero
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This is a segment of the 6-19-2016 Labor Express Radio program that covered the situation at CAN-TV. The full program can be found here... https://archive.org/details/LaborExpressFor6-19-2016 "...And lastly, we will return to a story we did cover briefly almost a year ago. The workers for CAN-TV in Chicago, are still negotiating their first contract, after their union was recognized by management last August. Negotiations have largely stalled for months and now at least one of the...
Topics: labor, chicago, union, justice, workers, CAN-TV
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Jun 19, 2016
06/16
Jun 19, 2016
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Jerry Mead-Lucero
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This is the full 6-19-2016 episode of the Labor Express Radio program. On tonight’s episode of Labor Express Radio will take a look at three local labor struggles we have not had a chance to cover much here on Labor Express yet. First we will turn our attention to an ongoing labor battle in Chicago that has already received some national attention, even becoming a topic in this year's presidential campaigns. Nabisco is perhaps one of the country's most iconic brands. The makers of such...
Topics: labor, chicago, union, justice, workers, Nabisco, Old Country Buffet, CAN-TV
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171
Jun 5, 2016
06/16
Jun 5, 2016
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Jerry Mead-Lucero
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This is the full 6-5-2016 episode of the Labor Express Radio program. Tonight’s episode of Labor Express Radio will be devoted entirely to a conversation I had earlier today with long time labor activist, author and fellow Pilsen resident Joe Allen. Joe’s most recent book, The Package King: A Rank and File History of United Parcel Service, is a look at the history of one of America’s most well known companies from the pointview of it workers. The book is curently available as an ebook...
Topics: labor, chicago, union, justice, workers, Joe Allen, UPS, Teamsters
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May 15, 2016
05/16
May 15, 2016
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Jerry Mead-Lucero
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This is the full 5-15-2016 episode of the Labor Express Radio program. On our last episode of Labor Express Radio I brought you a special May Day edition complete with some May Day music. What I was not able to bring you that day however was audio from the actually May Day march in Chicago as it was wrapping up shortly before our program aired. So I will make up for that tonight. On tonight’s program I will bring you the voices of those that participated in the 2016 May Day celebration...
Topics: labor, chicago, union, justice, workers, May Day
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May 1, 2016
05/16
May 1, 2016
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Jerry Mead-Lucero
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This is the full 5-1-2016 episode of the Labor Express Radio program. Happy May Day to all our listeners! It is exciting to be able to air an episode of Labor Express Radio on International Workers Day! Unfortunately, one of the drawbacks of doing so is that it limits my ability to report to you all on the events of May Day this year. I have just returned from the May Day march and do not have time to prepare audio from today’s events, that will unfortunately have to wait until the next...
Topics: labor, chicago, union, justice, workers, Labor Notes, Eli Green, Steelworkers, Chicago Teachers...
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12
Apr 16, 2016
04/16
Apr 16, 2016
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Jerry Mead-Lucero
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This is the full 4-17-2016 episode of the Labor Express Radio program. On tonight’s episode of Labor Express Radio I bring you audio from the 2016 Labor Notes conference. Labor Notes is a number of things. It is a monthly magazine that highlights the most progressive, the most militant efforts underway today to rebuild and revitalize the labor movement in this country. It is also an organization that builds networks of like minded labor activists and militants around the country and...
Topics: labor, chicago, union, justice, workers, Labor Notes, teachers, UTLA, United Teachers of Los...
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Apr 4, 2016
04/16
Apr 4, 2016
by
Jerry Mead-Lucero
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Labor Express for 4-3-2016
Topic: Labor Express for 4-3-2016
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Mar 20, 2016
03/16
Mar 20, 2016
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Jerry Mead-Lucero
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This is the full 3-20-2016 episode of the Labor Express Radio program. April is looking to be an exciting month for the labor movement in Chicago. The month will kick off with a series of public actions and perhaps a one day strike on April 1st, lead by the Chicago Teachers Union and over a dozen other local unions against both the Chicago Board of Education and Governor Bruce Rauner’s attacks on public education and the public sector more broadly. The actions planned for that day are...
Topics: labor, chicago, union, justice, workers, Chicago Teachers Union, Labor Notes
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50
Mar 7, 2016
03/16
Mar 7, 2016
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Jerry Mead-Lucero
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This is the full 3-6-2016 episode of the Labor Express Radio program. On tonight’s episode of Labor Express Radio, we turn to an issue I have been anxious to address on Labor Express for some time. The on-going crisis in Flint michigan in which thousands of residents have been poisoned with lead from contaminated water is one of the most striking and historic examples of environmental injustice. It is a condemnation of the emergency manager system in Michigan, the current manifestation of...
Topics: labor, chicago, union, justice, workers, Flint, Michigan, Belt Magazine, PERRO, LVEJO,...
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Feb 21, 2016
02/16
Feb 21, 2016
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Jerry Mead-Lucero
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This is the full 2-21-2016 episode of the Labor Express Radio program. On tonight’s episode of Labor Express Radio, we turn again to fights in the public sector in Chicago. We will discuss once again the on going battle over public education in Chicago, which continues to be the leading battle over privatization and living standards for the working class in Chicago. We will hear more about Bank of America’s role in the CPS budget shortfall which is now being used as a rationale for a...
Topics: labor, chicago, union, justice, workers, public schools, Chicago Teachers Union, Chicago Board of...
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24
Feb 7, 2016
02/16
Feb 7, 2016
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Jerry Mead-Lucero
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This is the full 2-7-2016 episode of the Labor Express Radio program. Struggles around public education continue to dominate the labor news scene in Chicago, and on tonight’s program we’ll hear about several developments in this area. First, on Monday the Chicago Teachers Union rejected the latest contract offer from the Chicago Board of Education. Making the possibility of a strike very likely. The contract offer from the board which demands serious concessions from the teachers comes...
Topics: labor, chicago, union, justice, workers, public schools, Chicago Teachers Union, Chicago Board of...
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Jan 24, 2016
01/16
Jan 24, 2016
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Jerry Mead-Lucero
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This is the full 1-24-2016 episode of the Labor Express Radio program. In the last few weeks fear in the undocumented immigrant community in the U.S. has reached new heights, as ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement) the agency known for many years as the INS, has launched a new series of immigration raids around the country, landing dozens of young single mothers and their children in deportation proceedings. These new raids are targeting recent Central Americans immigrants whose asylum...
Topics: labor, chicago, union, justice, workers, immigrants, immigration, ICE, raids, Supreme Court,...
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Jan 10, 2016
01/16
Jan 10, 2016
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Jerry Mead-Lucero
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This is the full 1-10-2016 episode of the Labor Express Radio program. Happy 2016 to all our listeners. I thought I would try to kick the new year off with some hopeful news and perhaps a preview of what is likely to come in 2016. First we have news of a sadly rare event in labor news, a successful NLRB union election. Dock workers at a Sears location in Chicago Ridge voted to become members of UFCW Local 881 in late November and are now negotiating over their first contract. 2016 is of...
Topics: labor, chicago, union, justice, workers, racism, police, brutality, Rahm Emanuel, Mayor, Anita...
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Dec 27, 2015
12/15
Dec 27, 2015
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Jerry Mead-Lucero
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This is the full 12-27-2015 episode of the Labor Express Radio program. As this is our final program of 2015, our next episode will be in the new year, I thought we would devote tonight’s program to a retrospective. Tonight we will be highlighting the most significant labor news we covered here on Labor Express Radio in the past year. Since we only have the hour we can’t possible cover all the most important developments in labor news in 2015, so we will be narrowing things down a bit....
Topics: labor, chicago, union, justice, workers, racism, police, brutality, workers center, Warehouse...
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Dec 13, 2015
12/15
Dec 13, 2015
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Jerry Mead-Lucero
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This is the full 12-13-2015 episode of the Labor Express Radio program. The last few weeks have been full of important developments for the working people in Chicago. On December 1st, Mayor Rahm Emanuel fired police chief Garry McCarthy, as the scale of the police cover-up of the murder of Black teen Laquan McDonald became public knowledge. Now the movement for justice for McDonald, and for racial justice in general, is developing into a movement to demand Mayor Rahm Emanuel and state's...
Topics: labor, chicago, union, justice, workers, racism, police, brutality, Rahm Emanuel, Mayor, Anita...
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Nov 30, 2015
11/15
Nov 30, 2015
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Jerry Mead-Lucero
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This is the full 11-29-2015 episode of the Labor Express Radio program. On Friday and earlier last week thousands of protesters shut down parts of the Michigan Ave. shopping district on one of the busiest shopping days and weeks of the year. The protesters hoped to call attention to an issue for too long ignored by the general public - the epidemic of police violence against communities of color. These most recent protests come in response to the release of the police dash cam video of the...
Topics: labor, chicago, union, justice, workers, racism, police, brutality, Carl Rosen, Tammie Vinson,...
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Nov 15, 2015
11/15
Nov 15, 2015
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Jerry Mead-Lucero
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This is the full 11-15-2015 episode of the Labor Express Radio program. On tonight’s episode of Labor Express Radio we will hear the voices of some of the low wage workers who took part in the national day of action last Tuesday, organized by the Fight for 15. Organizers are saying it was the largest mass mobilization yet of low income workers with tens of thousands workers and their supporters participating in at least 270 cities around the country. Later in the program we will hear from...
Topics: labor, chicago, union, justice, workers, Fight for 15, single payer, health care
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Nov 1, 2015
11/15
Nov 1, 2015
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Jerry Mead-Lucero
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This is the full 11-1-2015 episode of the Labor Express Radio program. There have been several recent cases of police brutality in Chicago that have lead to protests. From the case of Ronald "Ronnie Man" Johnson, who was shot to death by a Chicago Police officer Oct. 12, 2014. The police department has so far refused to release to the public dash cam video of the shooting. To the case of 17 year old LaQuan McDonald, who was shot 16 times, mostly in the back, by a Chicago police...
Topics: labor, chicago, union, justice, workers
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Oct 11, 2015
10/15
Oct 11, 2015
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Jerry Mead-Lucero
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This is the full 10-11-2015 episode of the Labor Express Radio program. On tonight’s episode we turn to an issue that we have neglected for far too long. On Oct. 5th, it was announced that the 12 negotiating nations had reached agreement on the Trans Pacific Partnership trade agreement or TPP. In the same week, WikiLeaks released a portion of the secretive trade pact to the public and presidential candidate Hillary Clinton reversed herself and declared her opposition to the TPP. All of...
Topics: labor, chicago, union, justice, workers, TPP, Trans Pacific Partnership, free trade, Jack Rasmus,...
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Sep 27, 2015
09/15
Sep 27, 2015
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Jerry Mead-Lucero
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This is the full 9-27-2015 episode of the Labor Express Radio program. On tonight’s episode we return to an issue we covered originally on our Labor Day episode. The Dyett hunger strikers ended their hunger strike on Sept. 21st after a major victory in the fight to halt the privatization of Dyett High School on Chicago’s Southside. They did not win all of their demands but it is a stunning victory nonetheless and the struggle at Dyett continues. We will hear from three of the strikers...
Topics: labor, chicago, union, justice, workers, railroads, safety, environment, education, Dyett, schools
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Sep 20, 2015
09/15
Sep 20, 2015
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Jerry Mead-Lucero
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This is the full 9-20-2015 episode of the Labor Express Radio program. On tonight’s episode we take a look at two important events which took place in Chicago over the past couple weeks. First up on Labor Day this year, the annual Labor Day celebration in the Pullman community was especially celebratory given Pullman’s designation earlier this year as the Nation’s newest national monument. The new designation raises the prominence of this tremendously important site in Labor History...
Topics: labor, chicago, union, justice, workers, Pullman, Railroad Workers United, rail, supply chain,...
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Sep 20, 2015
09/15
Sep 20, 2015
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Jerry Mead-Lucero
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This is the full 9-20-2015 episode of the Labor Express Radio program. On tonight’s episode we take a look at two important events which took place in Chicago over the past couple weeks. First up on Labor Day this year, the annual Labor Day celebration in the Pullman community was especially celebratory given Pullman’s designation earlier this year as the nation’s newest national monument. The new designation raises the prominence of this tremendously important site in Labor History...
Topics: labor, chicago, union, justice, workers, Pullman, Railroad Workers United, rail, supply chain,...
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Sep 6, 2015
09/15
Sep 6, 2015
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Jerry Mead-Lucero
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This is the full 9-6-2015 episode of the Labor Express Radio program. You could call this the back to school episode of Labor Express. Most public school students start the new school year on Tuesday, but the crisis in Chicago’s public schools continues. For now, there will be no teachers strike for the next couple months, but the union is considering a strike later in the school year if the Board of Ed continues to push layoffs and concession the union argues are unacceptable. We will...
Topics: Labor, chicago, union, justice, workers, Teachers, Public Schools, Dyett, CAN-TV
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Oct 18, 2014
10/14
Oct 18, 2014
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Jerry Mead-Lucero
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Labor Express For 10-26-09
Topics: labor, justice, workers, rights, Chicago, unions
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Oct 18, 2014
10/14
Oct 18, 2014
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Jerry Mead-Lucero
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Labor Express For 10-19-09
Topics: labor, justice, workers, rights, Chicago, union
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Sep 1, 2014
09/14
Sep 1, 2014
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Jerry Mead-Lucero
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This is the full 8-24-2014 episode of the Labor Express Radio program. On tonight's program we cover several issues. First we will hear from Joe Burns, author of “Reviving the Strike”, about how only the strike can halt the attack on Public Sector unions. Later, we will hear about the historic, successful effort to block an Israeli ship from docking at the Port of Oakland, in protests of Israel’s attack on Gaza and in support of the Boycott and Divestment campaign. We will also hear...
Topics: labor, chicago, union, justice, workers, Joe Burns, Oakland, Detroit, Palestine, AFL-CIO
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Aug 20, 2014
08/14
Aug 20, 2014
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Jerry Mead-Lucero
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This is the full 8-17-2014 episode of the Labor Express Radio program. On tonight's program we will hear about the possible development of an independent labor politics in Chicago. A surprising poll by the Chicago Tribune last week revealed that Rahm Emanuel may turn out to be a one term mayor and that his replacement may arise out of the labor movement. Than in the second half of the program we'll hear about the annual Labor Day celebration held in the Pullman neighborhood of Chicago from...
Topics: labor, chicago, union, justice, workers, Rahm Emanuel, Karen Lewis, Jorge Mujica, Tim Meegan,...
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Aug 20, 2014
08/14
Aug 20, 2014
by
Jerry Mead-Lucero
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eye 20
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This is the full 8-10-2014 episode of the Labor Express Radio program. Dale Lehman of Neighbors for Peace, talks about the Evanston Library’s decision to cancel a scheduled talk by Palestinian-American author Ali Hasan Abunimah, co-founder of the The Electronic Intifada and author of One Country: A Bold Proposal to End the Israeli-Palestinian Impasse. Lehman also discusses the current situation in Gaza and the Palestinian occupied territories. Labor Express Radio is Chicago's only English...
Topics: labor, chicago, union, justice, workers, Gaza, Palestine, Israel, Ali Hasan Abunimah, Electronic...
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This is the full 8-3-2014 episode of the Labor Express Radio program. On tonight's program, we take a look at several on-going strikes in the Chicago area. First from our friends at Labor Beat TV we will hear about the workers of Sloan Valve in Franklin Park, members of United Steelworkers Local 7999 who have been on strike now since May. Labor Beat attended a rally by the workers last week and we have audio for you from that rally. After that, more from our friends at Labor Beat. They...
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This is the full 5-25-2014 episode of the Labor Express Radio program. On today’s episode of Labor Express Radio, the Fight for 15, coming off their recent historic international one day strike a week and a half ago, take the fight to McDonalds door-step with another historic massive rally outside McDonalds HQ in Oak Brook Illinois last Thursday. We will hear from several of the over one hundred McDonald’s workers who were arrested that day for blocking the road outside McDonalds...
Topics: labor, chicago, union, justice, workers, Fight for 15, SEIU, McDonalds, health care
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